Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan were in full swing, and Cao Cao was not idle. After Jia Xu in Nanpi City took over the Shadow, he followed Han Fei's advice and intensified his efforts to obtain information about the Cao Cao Group.

In the same night, he received a lot of news from various channels, and Jia Xu picked up these messages and read them one by one. "It's a little interesting, it is worthy of being an opponent that makes Zicong jealous, this Cao Cao has capable people!" Jia Xu muttered to himself.

Jia Xu pondered for a moment after reading the information, and then picked up the pen and wrote a letter. Then he shouted outside the door, "Someone! Send this letter to the lord and Han Junshi as soon as possible! ”

The door was opened, and one of his men entered the room, saluted Jia Xu, took the letter, and turned to leave, without saying a word the whole time. After the man left, Jia Xu picked up the news on the table again and read it carefully.

In other words, what happened to Cao Cao made Jia Xu pay so much attention to it. Things have to start from the beginning, it turned out that a month ago, the four leaders of the White Wave Thieves, Han Xian, Yang Feng, Li Le, and Hu Cai, led an army of 100,000 to attack Luoyang. Cao Cao listened to the plan of his strategist Xi Zhicai, and ordered Cao Ren to lead the thieves into a valley southwest of Luoyang, where the generals Xiahou Yuan and Xiahoudun ambushed the defeated thief army, and beheaded the two leaders of the white wave thieves, Li Le and Hu Cai.

The leader Yang Feng didn't see it well, and quickly fled the battlefield under the protection of his general Xu Huang. The other leader, Han Xian, was more cunning, he did not enter the valley with the brigade at all, so he escaped the catastrophe. As soon as the battle in the valley began, he fled with his men.

Cao Cao killed the white wave thieves in this battle, and captured more than 50,000 people, and then successively collected more than 10,000 women, children, and the old and weak, which made him no longer have to worry about the population of Luoyang! However, with the rapid increase in population, Cao Cao's internal affairs have a big problem. Originally, Luoyang had few people and could rely on the grain and grass support of the Hedong Wei family and the Hongnong Yang family, but now that the population is large, the grain and grass can't keep up with it first.

Cao Cao wanted to buy grain, but at this time he found that he did not have much money in his hands. This Luoyang City was looted by Dong Zhuojun too ruthlessly, and nothing of value was left for Cao Cao except for the house.

On this day, Cao Cao was having a headache for food and military salaries, and the strategist Cheng Yu quietly gave him a suggestion. "My lord, in fact, we are still rich. It's just that the money is not easy to take! Cheng Yu said vaguely.

"There's money there?" Cao Cao wondered.

Cheng Yu didn't speak, but pointed to the ground where he was standing. Cao Cao was taken aback at the moment, and said in his heart: "This is to take the money of the dead!" Seeing that Cao Cao was silent, Cheng Yu got up and said goodbye. There is no way to do this in the end, it still depends on Cao Cao's decision.

After Cheng Yu left, Cao Cao listened and thought for a long time, and finally made up his mind. "That's it, I'd rather let me bear the world than let the world bear me! What about grave robbing? After my Cao Mengde dies, I don't care if he is a monstrous flood or infamous through the ages! ”

Since Cao Cao had made up his mind, he found his third brother Cao Hong that night and ordered him to recruit rangers and bandits to secretly set up a special unit, worshiped as the captain of the gold school, and was responsible for stealing tombs and robbing tombs to get money from the ground. Cao Hong really lived up to his trust, and it only took three days to raise a team of 100 people, this team rested day and night, and the large camp where they lived was rarely populated in the remote mountains, in order to prevent outsiders from knowing the secrets of the camp.

Luoyang is the capital of the Han Dynasty, there are many mausoleums around, and the newly established school captain of the touch gold has obtained 100,000 military salaries for Cao Cao in just one month. This made Cao Cao overjoyed, so he increased the recruitment of Captain Jin, but those who entered the camp would not be released again unless they died, for fear of leaking the news. It's just that after a long time, there will always be a time when this matter will be exposed, but in the face of huge interests, whether it is Cao Hong or Cao Cao, they have long ignored others. So under Cao Hong's recruitment, Captain Mojin soon grew to a scale of 1,000 people. It became an extremely important unit under Cao Cao.

Cao Cao finally got rich, and he followed the advice of his advisor Xun Yu. Publish a message, buy grain from all over the world, no matter who you are, as long as you transport the grain to Luoyang, you can immediately take the money and leave, and it is even higher than the market price. The slogan of Cao Cao Group is: We only need food and don't ask where it comes from!

The Xin family and the Mi family in Nanpi City both wanted to expand their trade routes and take the opportunity to sell grain in Luoyang. As a result, Xin Ping and Mi Zhu discussed for a long time, and finally decided to simply go together. These two families have each sent people to form a joint grain sales team, and they have set off for Luoyang five days ago. Of course, how could Jia Xu let go of such an opportunity, and he placed several shadow members in this team.

With the arrival of grain merchants from all over the world, Cao Cao completely got rid of the trouble of grain. Then he attacked the Baibo thieves again, Cao Cao personally led an army of 30,000 to conquer the Baibo Valley, and saw the army approaching the city Han Xian and Yang Fengyi discussed, and finally decided to surrender Cao. Cao Cao was overjoyed and named both of them as school captains. However, what Cao Cao was even more pleased with was that he finally got the general named Xu Huang under Yang Feng.

As early as when the Baibo thieves attacked Luoyang, Cao Cao noticed the difference between Xu Huang, if it weren't for him to protect Yang Feng in the chaos, it is difficult to say whether Yang Feng's force could be returned with his whole body. However, there were too many prisoners at that time, and Yang Feng and others retreated in a battle, which made Cao Cao lose the opportunity to recruit Xu Huang. This time, he said that he was here to conquer Bai Bogu, but in fact, it was for Xu Huang alone.

Of course, there are still more than 50,000 people in the Baibo Valley at this time, and these will become the capital of Cao Cao's struggle for hegemony in the world. It can be said that Cao Cao, who completely annexed the White Wave Thief, already has the strength to expand outward, and Dong Zhuo in the west will not be provoked for the time being, but the annexed states in the north, Yanzhou in the east and Yuzhou in the south may become a target for Cao Cao.

Han Fei, who was still in Tai'an City, looked at the information in his hand, which was sent by Liu Bei just after night. After reading it at a glance, Han Fei closed his eyes and muttered, "It seems that a lot of things have changed due to my arrival, and I don't know if Dong Zhuo will hang up." It should be developed quickly, and it means that Boss Cao will immediately attack Yanzhou. If Yanzhou is defeated, Xuzhou and Qingzhou will be in danger! ”

Before Cao Cao called, he must have all Qingzhou in his hands! Thinking of this, Han Fei got up and put on his clothes and walked straight out of the house, walking towards Liu Bei's study in the back house. At present, both of them live in the Taishou Mansion, one is for convenience, and the other is for safety! Liu Bei has always been guarded by a team of personal soldiers, and Dian Wei is always by his side, so Han Fei is also protected.